Word: firmnesses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that might do him no harm on the home front. He was no stranger to the territory, of course. The last time he ventured into Viet Nam "in South Korea" and later declared that U.S. officials had "brainwashed" him. This time Romney came away convinced that he had "a firm grasp of the situation. I had the background and knowledge to dig in and penetrate the situations and get at the facts that I wanted to know." A somewhat different appraisal came from one top U.S. official in Saigon: "The Governor seemed bent on some kind of political kamikaze...
...reason that Tubman seems so indispensable to some Liberians is that few possible successors are in sight. The most prominent candidate: William "Shad" Tubman Jr., 34, Harvard-bred member of Liberia's most influential public relations firm...
...another $217 million in gilt-edged investments, including majority ownership in prospering Middle East Airlines and a hunk of choice real estate on Paris' Champs Elysees. All that was needed was a plan to satisfy its creditors and the Lebanese government. This was provided by the U.S. banking firm of Kidder, Peabody...
Convinced that the trend toward merger will continue, the American Association of Theological Schools has commissioned the research-consultant firm of Arthur D. Little, Inc., to study how seminary unions can be more carefully planned. Dr. Jesse H. Ziegler, executive director of the association, predicts that within the next 20 years most of North America's Protestant seminaries will have combined into 25 major ecumenical clusters...
...Pont de Nemours & Co., the world's largest chemical firm, last week named the twelfth president in its 165-year history. He succeeds Lammot du Pont Copeland, 62, who moves up to chairman. While he becomes only the second president from outside the Du Pont family, Charles Brelsford ("Brel") McCoy, 58, hardly ranks as an interloper. Son of a onetime Du Pont vice president, McCoy has two sons and a brother working for the com pany, and his sister Anne is married to Du Pont Secretary Henry T. Bush. An other brother is Landscape Painter John McCoy...